Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture/politics. Show all posts
Friday, August 29, 2025

Why You Are Probably An NPC (Non playing character)

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I want to pass on this outstanding piece of writing from Gurwinder on Substack, in which he describes five different robotic human characte...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Polarization may be inherent in social media

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Science news reports on a fascinating recent study suggesting that just the basic functions of social media—posting, reposting, and follow...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The number of fake scientific journal articles is doubling every year and a half.

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I am so saddened by the demonstration by Richardson et al.(open source) of the disintegration of the safeguards against scienfic fraud tha...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Is liberal democracy still viable in our complex world?

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I pass on the background reading for this Sunday's (8/3/25)Austin Rainbow Forum, which I host at my house on the first Sunday of every m...
Friday, July 18, 2025

How the attention economy is devouring us. - A conversation between Ezra Klein and Kyla Scanlon

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Again, I archive for myself and also pass on to readers a ChatGPT4o summary of a NYT Opinion article by Ezra Klein , this time on his interv...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Stagnation, disruption, and the future - A conversation between Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel

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A r ecent NYT Opinion article that I read through carefully when it appeared has occasioned aa lot of comment, so I have decided to use Min...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Promises and Perils of AI: A Mid-2025 Reading Roundup

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Here is MindBlog's  (Deric'c) prompt to ChatGPT4o:      "I have uploaded to Chat GPT one paragraph summaries of 9 articles  fr...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Rejecting blind builder and helpless witness narratives in favor of constitutive narratives

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I want to pass on this concise ChatGP4o summary of a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao  titled "Not Just a Camera, Not Just an Engine"...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents

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Peter et al. offer an interesting open source essay. They ask: "should we lean into the human-like abilities, or should we aim to dehu...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI

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 From Reif et al. (open source) , systematic observations that confirm my own experience, Significance As AI tools become increasingly prev...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why does AI hinder democratization?

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Here is the abstract from the open source article of Chu et al in PNAS:  This paper examines the relationship between democratization and t...
Friday, May 16, 2025

On replacing the American establishment - the ideological battle for the soul of Trump World.

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 I want to pass on the first few paragraphs from Chaffin and Elinson's  piece in the May 10 Wall Street Journal, which give a juicy summ...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Does Language in our head have a Mind of Its Own?

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I pass on a brief opinion From Elan Barenholtz's Substack. He is an Assoc. Prof. of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Rato...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Carole Cadwalladr - This is what a digital coup looks like.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Deric and DeepSeek R1 on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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This post on an exchange with DeepSeek R1 is a followup on my previous post describing the Chat GPT 4o response to some of my idea fragmen...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech

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Interesting open source article describing experiments by Leshin et al .  (Our current MAGA overlords would like to ban such perspectives.) ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

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Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o - in which it responds to some of my idea fragments - convinces me that AI's current power to in...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

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I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere,  but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Ven...
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